An evening observation of tank

Sitting here on corner of LR couch, my favorite perch for watching fish tank, thought came to me to describe what I see right now.

Digital temp gauge on top reads 79.2 degrees.

Water crystal clear…changed filter socks and replenished carbon this a.m.

Fish fed about an hour ago so they are just wandering about doing their normal thing.

Yellow tang and flame wrasse both in front of tank looking out, wondering what is going on in living room. (watching TV?)

Sixline is doing its regular rushing about, playing in heavy water flow. Going forwards, backwards, and turning sidewise and back and forth.

The pair of striped damsels are at opposite side of tank. The larger one (female?) has some kind of mental defect. Every couple of minutes she quickly does a nose dive for the bottom (?) – when not doing that she goes to side of tank and does something like the clownfish “shimmy” – weird, does it constantly. The other just wanders about when not being chased about by the Coral Beauty. No harm done, just a game like tag.

Mandarin is cruising rocks looking for things to eat in little nooks and crannies. Which it must find because it is as fat as a little sausage.

Two blue yellow tails chasing each other about everywhere. Usually they hang out in rock formation in upper right of tank, along with the two striped ones. It is definitely “damsel corner” and other fish don’t venture there often. (except CB when she feels like chasing something.

Large BTA is fully extended taking over the entire left back of tank. Maroon pair visit now and then, but lately have been hanging out in small bta groupings in tank bottom.

Bi-color blenny making quick dashes from his “cave” in highest part of rock, down to sand pile being built by large shrimp goby in bottom of tank. Must be finding something good to eat in the stirred up sand.

Corals are growing like crazy. Large colt and toadstool dominate the left side of tank. Kenya tree corals (another “weed”) are sprouting up just about everywhere where something else is not already growing. Time to do some clearing again.

Four large finger leather colonies all fragged from one small piece long ago growing nicely.

A virtual xenia forest has sprouted up in center front. Am careful to keep it from rocks other then what they are already sitting on to keep them from spreading. Makes them easy to prune when needed.

Frogspawn is growing out of control. Once it was just a two headed piece, which is now grown into four large multiheaded groupings which I have spread around tank.


Different kinds of zoanthids are spreading over lots of rock. Can easily see new ones daily.

Gsp’s also spreading nicely on rocks in center of tank.

Shrimp stay pretty much out of sight. Cleaner lives in same cave with shrimp goby. Blood shrimp has his own cavern and rarely ventures out. Harlequins only make appearance when hungry.

Snails (mostly turbos) grazing along top of tank just below water line.

Hermits bumping around various places.

My tank appears happy. Which makes me so.

 

cool...great job by you and your live stock!
Keep up the success story, as I love stories that come with a happy ending, just like the happy ending sundae at Friendly's restaurants with purchase of certain sandwitches! LOL

 

Yep, we need some "happy" posts now and then to offset the many "unhappy" ones. ;D

Here are a few misc pics I took just after posting earlier:

 

Awesome omar sounds like nature is taking its course..........CR we used to have a friendly's in this part of Maryland...my grandparents used to take me there all the time... i was always a fan of the reeses pbc sundae.

 

hi sounds awsome what size tank?

 

125 gallons, i know it off the top of my head

 

Ya know it sounds mushy but it IS GOOD to read a happy post.

Thanks Omard for reminding me to stop and enjoy whats going on in my tank instead of whats going on underneath it. Karma to ya.

 

I dont want to steal your thread Omard but it has reminded me of a thread I posted some time ago on another forum. It falls along the same lines as what you have already said about observation.

Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 1,438
Tank Size (US GAL): 90
Name: Jim Walter

I watched 7-8 blue leg hermits tear apart one of my Astrea snails the other day. The tank is full of food and empty shells lay all over the front of the tank. My usuall course of action has been to rescue the snail and throw the hermits to the corners of the tank like a referee in a boxing match. For whatever reason, this time I just sat back and watched.

Pretty soon one arm of a brittle star was sticking out from under a rock. The current would carry tiny bits of the now being torn apart snail straight to the brittles arm where some would stick to be eaten soon after.

Just past the brittle star is a brain coral that had started changing its shape from sually round to basically flat on one side. Pieces of the snail would drift past the brittles stars arm and now hit the upright flat side of the brain coral where the pieces would stick and yes, would be eaten soon.

Any snail parts that made it past the brain were being devoured by a swooping and diving hippo tang who was thoroughly enjoying the snack not normally had in the middle of the day.

Snail is gone. Nothing at all wasted. Just another empty shell remains.

Just interesting to watch and think about...